Mary is an ingenuous student.
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Ingenuous
//ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs//
Synonyms for "ingenuous" (135 found)
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Related words (67)
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Adjective(2 words)
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Antonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
3 entriesrelated to
13 entriessimilar
12 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- доверчив adj (naive and trusting)
- искрен adj (straightforward, open)
- наивен adj (naive and trusting)
- открит adj (straightforward, open)
Catalan
3 entries- ingenu adj (naive and trusting)
- ingenu adj (childlike, simple)
- naïf adj (naive and trusting)
Esperanto
1 entries- simplanima adj (childlike, simple)
Finnish
4 entries- luottavainen adj (naive and trusting)
- mutkaton adj (straightforward, open)
- sinisilmäinen adj (naive and trusting)
- sinisilmäinen adj (childlike, simple)
French
2 entries- ingénu adj (naive and trusting)
- ingénu adj (childlike, simple)
German
4 entries- arglos adj (naive and trusting)
- freimütig adj (naive and trusting)
- schlicht adj (childlike, simple)
- treuherzig adj (naive and trusting)
Irish
1 entries- soineanta adj (naive and trusting)
Italian
1 entries- ingenuo adj (childlike, simple)
Māori
1 entries- pōaha adj (straightforward, open)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- troskyldig adj (childlike, simple)
Occitan
1 entries- ingenú adj (naive and trusting)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- ساده adj (naive and trusting)
- طوی adj (naive and trusting)
Polish
1 entries- prostoduszny adj (naive and trusting)
Portuguese
1 entries- ingénuo adj (naive and trusting)
Romanian
3 entries- ingenuu adj (naive and trusting)
- ingenuu adj (childlike, simple)
- inocent adj (naive and trusting)
Russian
1 entries- бесхи́тростный adj (childlike, simple)
Spanish
2 entries- ingenuo adj (naive and trusting)
- inocente adj (naive and trusting)
Thai
3 entries- ซื่อ adj (naive and trusting)
- ใสซื่อ adj (childlike, simple)
- ไร้เดียงสา adj (childlike, simple)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth.
Source: tatoeba (7752189)
"Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?" "Of course not." "On your word of honour?" I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.
Source: wiktionary
The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction.
Source: wiktionary
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